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Kenny CPN4
Even if he believes otherwise and has many supporters, I don't see Kenny winning this game!

In the episode where he's supposed to emerge as the mastermind, showing that little boating disaster, where he admits he's an idiot, is very damning. Worse was letting us hear his petty reason for targeting Charlie. Remember, Charlie was a fairly insignificant character prior to this episode so going after him would not have reflected poorly on Kenny. However, Charlie had suddenly been given a role as peacekeeper, first in the challenge between Randy and Matty and at TC between Randy and Crystal.

The vote for Charlie was so out of left field that Jeff had asked Charlie if he'd be concerned that he'd be targeted if he was Randy or Crystal. If Kenny was the winner, Charlie would have been presented discussing strategy and Kenny's admission would have been edited out of the episode. Shown this way, it made a "Victim" out of Charlie, someone that was booted for unfair reasons.


It seems that many people here are ignoring that Kenny's story actually got butchered in this episode. The recap had finally given him a positive spin by calling him an underdog yet he went on to tell us he controls this game and can win it. That's not an underdog storyline! Why the hatchet job? It was more important to show that he was lying to Sugar and she was buying it than to build up his winner's potential. We HAD to see him abusing Sugar's gullibility and letting us hear that he thought Charlie was a really nice guy at TC when he had organized his "death" only reinforced that.


Anyway, there has been enough snake imagery this season that veteran Survivor viewers should realize a rat will get eaten alive!

Charlie MORP2
He tried to keep the peace, instead he got blown to pieces.

Susie INV: (-1)

I know that isn't a valid rating but, when someone HAS a story to tell and it gets totally ignored, that's terribly damning. Susie was responsible for booting Marcus. Susie surprisingly won the immunity challenge. Susie wasn't deemed worthy of getting a single confessional to tell us how happy she was.

Crystal OTTN2

Her story of being the underdog was aborted as soon as it was conceived. Crystal had no confessionals and only appeared when she started a fight at TC without any prompting from Jeff.

Bob MORP3

Bob finally had an interesting episode even if once more his interventions at TC weren't shown. The way the camera showed us his great artwork leads me to believe that the fake idol will come into play this time again. I don't know if it will create another funny scene like "It's just a stick" but it could have more impact in the game. Bob himself however, still has no storyline that looks into the end game, no reflexion of what he needs to do excpet survive one more day and no mention of what the others think of him and his jury appeal.

Randy OTTN4

He must be taken out of contention after this episode. Being first shown as an ungracious winner in the recap (where Jeff's own role in that display was ignored) was very damning. His outburst at the reward may have been prompted by something ugly Matty did but we weren't shown what that could have been. If Randy was our winner, we would have heard his rant against Crystal at TC but it would have been amputated of the "You and your boy GC… you and your possee were running it like it was a gang" sentence. Is Randy the next boot or the most attractive goat since Dreamz?

Sugar MOR2

Sugar was more the girl of the moment than the "Girl of the Hour" that she called herself. Sugar was totally ignored during most of the episode, including the reward celebration where people would have expected her to be chum with a little girl a lot more than Corinne!

Why was Kenny's story killed by letting us hear that he lied about Charlie? So that we'd understand why Sugar finally turned against him. Her confessional about not trusting Kenny or Crystal but having no alligience to Randy and Corinne had a seminal aspect to it. Since those 4 players are still there, the war for Sugar isn't over! Can she navigate her way to a win? It would make for a fun ride and winning would certainly be playing this game like nobody else. However, Sugar still looks like the one through which the events will occur, not the one that will profit from them. That was Eve's story, wasn't it? The Star of David accompanied her confessional to make us see the intended biblical link.

Matty CP3

How I wish I hadn't been fooled by Matty's early confessionals about being hopeless and being doomed! I confidently gave him the role of a "Victim" in this story when he could actually be our winner. Last week, he traded his "victim" role to Marcus for what appears to be the "Leading Man" role.

Matty has always been our connection to Gabon, from his first confessional, to his encounter with the elephant, his remark about not taking the apple and finally to his great confessional during the reward challenge. He has also often been shown like a good team player and seeing him hugging Randy after their win, even if Randy hadn't cooled down yet, was another proof of that.

Since I didn't have him on my list of contenders, I can't very well include him at this late date but I can still cheer for a Matty win! His story is the big story of Survivor Gabon, even eclipsing Sugar's sweetheart story.

Big stories don't always equate to winning ones though because there are some hints that Matty may not be our winner:

- Since Marcus fell victim to a twist last week, it seems damning that we saw Matty grinning from ear to ear and winking at Kenny when he realized that Marcus was "dead". Some respect would have been in order and, if it wasn't coming, the camera could have ignored him instead of underlining it.

- Worse, we heard him rejoicing over Marcus' demise during the reward, saying he would never have won if Marcus was still there. Shouldn't a winner be portrayed as someone willing to fight it out on the battle field? If that wasn't mentioned, why not ignore the reward comment?

- Finally, something that could be trivial in all the bitterness flying around, but why did we have to hear Matty telling everyone to shush in camp? Could Matty's mouth injure him in this game just like he injured himself at the challenge? Matty isn't portrayed as a clinical player but a very emotional one.

Corinne CPM4

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not one to follow rigid rules, especially in regards to something as fluid as storytelling so ratings by themselves don't eliminate anyone in my book, be it INV or OTT. I had Corinne as my top contender when Marcus was still there and now she's the only contender I have left.


Corinne, despite her personality, is portrayed as a fairly clinical player. Where we expected her to blow up at the reward challenge when she realized that Marcus had been voted out, she tried to explain her reaction calmly. Even if it irritated Susie and Kenny, the editors gave her the final word. At tribal council, we expected that Corinne would let Susie know how she felt about the previous vote, instead she was kept away from all the nastiness.

Can she be a winner even if we heard her say that Sugar was a moron? I'll admit that it's very worrying but it was done in confessional. In camp, she tells Sugar that she cares for her opinion and wants to do whatever Sugar wants.

Can she be a winner even if she was called horrendous? Well, she has 2 sure votes on the jury so we need some doubts! What's important is that we haven't been shown any of her nastiness to Sugar or anyone else during the episodes. It's all contained in her confessionals even if we know she can blow up at times. That's manipulation and a winner's edit always gets the most careful manipulation.

Jeff told us to expect a crazy finish and Corinne winning would require a crazy finish!